Guys, can you please try this? Unfortunately I can't tell if this will help or not, but it helped in some similar case in the past.
As a workaround, please try going to Render Setup > Common and DISABLING the "Rendered frame window" option.
This will hide the VFB, but you will still see the rendering progress (i.e. how many passes are rendered, what is the rendering status).
If possible, please try this and let me know here whether it changes anything or not.
